Athena (played by Joanna Bateman) is the goddess of war, and she drives Ajax to madness solely for her own amusement. The play "Ajax In Iraq" runs at the Greenway Court Theater through August 14th. John Ismay/KPCC

For two and a half millennia, the Greek tragedy of “Ajax” has endured as one of the best depictions of war and the psychological damage it can inflict on combatants. And at the Greenway Court Theater in Hollywood, the Ajax story is being reborn.

American Homefront reporter Jay Price talks with WUNC's Frank Stasio about the potential dangers of burn pits, which were commonly used to dispose of trash at U.S. bases in Afghanistan and Iraq. Price, who spent time at several of the bases as a journalist, explains that burn pits were among many things that polluted the air in war zones.